What The Media Isn’t Telling You about the war on Syria

The U.S. government continues to say that it is not willing to arm the so called ”rebels”  in Syria despite calls by high profile Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. If that is the case, why are 300 Marines now stationed along the Syrian border with Jordan?

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The U.S. has located 300 Marines in northern Jordan near the border with Syria along With a patriot anti-aircraft missile system, that report from the Times of London.

The U.S. military says those marines are only there as part of a military training.

Exercise, other than that, we know very little about the role of those marines other than the fact that they will remain there for at least several months.

So the big question is, how long before the United States will be involved in Syria? The answer, we already are.

Last year when I talked one on one, with President Obama, he told me that the United States was careful not to provide arms to these opposition groups. The President said that in response to a question I asked him, about how the United States could support the opposition groups in Syria, when so many of those so called rebels, in reality are not Syrian and many are al -Qaeda fighters from Iraq.

In reality the United States has already provided millions in financial help to the FSA or the Free Syrian Army. We have also provided non lethal assistance to the FSA, satellite radios, as well as body armor.

But according to some like Republican Senator John McCain, that is not enough. On Memorial Day McCain made a secret trip to Syria, to meet with the leader of the Supreme military council of the Free Syrian Army, General Salem Idris.

Senator McCain was asked for the U.S. to take the lead in a quote “ more serious manner ”. More specifically, to provide heavy weapons directly to the FSA. He was asked, for the U.S. to create a no- fly zone for Syrian war planes, and for strategic bombings, by the U.S. on the Syrian government.

So what’s the problem here? There is in fact, an enormous problem. This is the part of the story that, so much of the media is just not telling you.

The war on Syria is not a true civil war. Two years ago. Those I have talked to who are living in Syria today tell me that, when unrest started, it looked as if there would be a push for freedom but in a short time, the people fighting that war against the government became, not Syrian citizens, but jihadists and al Qaeda fighters. There are multiple groups fighting to overthrow the Syrian government . The FSA or the Free Syrian Army, the ones making the requests for U.S.help are second largest opposition group. The largest is al Nusra Front.

Who is that? Al Nusra Front is the Syrian wing of al Qaeda in Iraq.

 In December of 2012, the United States officially designated al Nusra Front as a terror organization.

Then in April of 2013, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq released an audio recording announcing al Nusra as its branch in Syria.

Ohio congressman Brad Wenstrup tells me that much of what he knows about the situation in Syria is classified, but admits quote,

“You really have to take a close look at who are your friends, and what will this do to us, in the long term. and we have had some lessons learned on that in the past.” Congressman Wenstrup said.

The Congressman cannot get into too many details about what he knows but there is a lot out there that is not classified about al Nusra Front.

About a month ago, the UK Guardian reported that the best financed, best equipped and best motivated force taking on the Syrian government is not the FSA, but is al-Nusra, and that the Free Syrian Army is losing thousands of fighters and capabilities to al Nusra.

If these guys are so bad, why aren’t we hearing more about it? I canʼt tell you that but, what I can tell you is what is happening in Syria today, should have the attention of every American and evidence of it, is not that hard to find.

All over YouTube are videos posted by members of the Free Syrian Army, or al- Nusra demonstrating what they are doing now and what they will do in Syria once they have control. Beheadings of anyone seen as a traitor or siding with the government and the slaughtering of many innocent people.

There is something else about the situation in Syria that American media is not telling you. Until this war started two years ago, Syria was one of the few places in the middle east where Christians, Shiite muslims, Sunni muslims , Alawites, and Jews all lived in peace with each other.

To understand why the Western media, under heavy influence from the Pentagon, we can turn to a 2006 interview of General Wesley Clark, a Rhodes scholar and the Supreme Allied Commander (Europe) of NATO from 1997-2000.

Speaking on March 2, 2007 to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Clark said that about 10 days after 9/11 he visited his former staff in the Pentagon. They told him, in astonished tones, that the US was going to go to war with Iraq — which they said had no demonstrated connection to 9/11, and they were at a complete loss to explain why.

A few weeks later Clark went back to the Pentagon and was told that the US was going to “take out” seven Middle East countries in the next five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. He added, “Had there been no oil there it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.”

This early agenda for “take out,” said by Clark to have been in place immediately after 9/11, raises questions about the anthrax attacks, which started September 18,2001.

Thus by 9/11, the “deep state” was already armed against its population in a manner that Binney referred to as “J. Edgar Hoover on super steroids.”

Meanwhile, the mainstream media have increasingly accepted the US position that Middle East countries plagued by civil wars caused by repressive dictators must be saved by humanitarian intervention from enlightened Western democracies.

Indeed Reuters correspondent Mark Hosenball reported last August that “President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for ”rebels” seeking to depose Syrian government.”

The Reuters article continued:

“Recent news reports from the region have suggested that the influence and numbers of Islamist militants, most of them connected to al Qaeda or its affiliates, have been growing among Syrian government opponents.”

On June 17, 2013, CNN supported the al Qaeda connection: 

“Al Qaeda’s affiliate inside Syria is now the best-equipped arm of the terror group in existence today, according to informal assessments by U.S. and Middle East intelligence agencies, a private sector analyst directly familiar with the information told CNN.” 

 The enormous cost in lives and dollars of the Middle East wars, coupled with the pervasive spying of domestic citizens now in progress, should prompt all those interested in democracy to look carefully at this evidence.

And regarding Syria at this moment, why is it the responsibility of the United States to intervene in the war of a sovereign country? 

If humanitarian intervention is indeed desired, why is it not a peace-keeping initiative arranged by the United Nations?

Source: BenSwann.com

Ben is an award-winning television reporter who has worked in New Mexico, Texas and Ohio.

 

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